Azmi Eid

Azmi Eid (6 September 1946-24 June 1973) was a PFLP member and one of the hijackers of Lufthansa Flight 273.

Biography
Azmi Eid was born on 6 September 1946 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine to a family of Greek Catholic Palestinians. He joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group, and on 23 June 1973 he joined Irfan Noori's group in hijacking Lufthansa Flight 273. Eid was easily identified by the Sayeret Matkal commandos by a lit cigarette that he smoked, and when the Sayeret Matkal soldiers assaulted the plane as it was on the runway of Damascus International Airport in Syria early in the morning of 24 June 1973, Eid was shot in the head with a sniper rifle and killed instantly.